Allan Gottlieb schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:40:
> 
> I have obtained the sources to e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-libs, ss, com_error
> via emerge --fetchonly.
> Am I correct in believing that emerge --unmerge will NOT remove the
> sources.

No the sources should not get removed unless you use tools like eclean.
To be save quickpkg the packages you want to remove before you actually
remove them. So in case of failure you can get them back.